The Tea Pot Story
A couple went into an antique shop and they saw this beautiful beautiful,
magnificent little tea pot sitting high upon a shelf. They just fell in love
with that little teapot. And they said, "We have got to have that teapot."
They were admiring the tea pot and all of a sudden the teapot began to talk to
them. It said, "You know, I haven't always been like this. There was a time when
nobody would have wanted me. There was a time when I was not attractive at all
and not much use to the master. I was so broken and not fit for anything but the
trash I thought."
You see there was a time in my life when I was just an old hard gray lump of
clay and the Master Potter came along and picked me up one day and he began to
pat, twist, turn me and reshape me and I said, "Stop it ! What are you doing?
That hurts! Don't do that! Moaning, achhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Leave me alone!
" And he simply looked at me and said, "Not Yet."
And then he put me on this wheel and he began to spin me around and around and
around and around and I got so dizzy that I couldn't even hardly see where I was
going anymore. I was loosing it! Everything was spinning around and around and
around and I felt sick to my stomach andI said, " Let me off of here!" And he
said, "Not yet."
The oven door had glass in it and the Master would look in there and he had this
big old grin on his face and this certain look in his eyes. And he wouldn't let
me out. And he would just smile at me and say, "Not yet." Finally, the oven door
opened and he took me out and set me up on a shelf and I thought "Whew!" Thank
God that is over! But then he began to paint me all over with this stinking
paint changing my color from gray to this pretty GOLD that I am now. And I
said,"This stuff stinks! It is choking me! Kawf, hack! kawf, I don't like this
smell! Stop IT! Stop it! Stop it! He would just say, "Not Yet." (Anybody
recognize the symptoms?) I have said these words to YAHUSHUA, have you? Then he put
me back in the oven for the second time over and this is called the second
firing. And it was twice as hot as the first oven and I thought I will die in
here for sure. This is the end of me! This will finish me off. "GET ME OUT OF
HERE, I CAN’T STAND IT! I CAN'T STAND IT! Really I am telling you I can't stand
it! This is going to kill me, get me out of here now!" And he just looked
through that glass and say, "NOT yet"
And then one day the door opened and he took me out and put me up here on this
shelf to let me cool off. And after I cooled off one day, he came by and he
handed me this mirror and I looked at myself and I couldn't believe how
beautiful I was. I couldn't believe how I had changed! I didn't look anything at
all like that old piece of gray clay that I started out to be. Now I am this
beautiful little delicate "tea pot" and everybody wants me now.
(I don't know if I have arrived to this state yet.)
Personal note from Rev. Elisheva Eliyahu.
But there was a time in my life when nobody wanted me, nobody liked me, nobody
paid any attention to me, they just kicked me around and walked on me. But now I
am special, but I wasn't always this way! Now he uses my pain to minister to
others, so they know they are not alone in their sufferings, YAHUSHUA takes the
time to mold us and make us more into his image so we could glorify HIM! and
Father God YAHUVEH!
Romans 8 says that we are predestined to be molded into the image of YAHUSHUA.
Wow! That was GOD's plan from the very beginning even before we showed up on
planet earth. He says, " I want you to be just like my Son, YAHUSHUA."
That will obviously take a work in our lives because by the time we submit our
lives to the Lord YAHUSHUA we usually have quite a few problems, made a lot of
mistakes that take GOD time to get us out of them and we need a pretty awesome
work done in us.
God wants to do something through you, so you have got to let him do something
to you. Every time we come up a little bit higher a little bit of our flesh has
to go down lower. He is the potter and we are the clay. Let him mold us into his
image. It hurts a heck of a lot, but in the end we will see it was for a
purpose, and it is worth it!
We are All in this Fiery Furnace together and the Bible says in I Peter, I:7,
"That the trial of your faith being much more precious than gold that perisheth,
though it might be tried with fire, might be found onto praise and honor and
glory at the appearing of YAHUSHUA." It says in Psalms 34:19 "Many are the
afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them ALL!
"Read prophecy 7 (No More Crumbs) and hang on tight to the hem of YAHUSHUA's
garment with me! OK?
Is there really any other choice? He will deliver us in YAHUSHUA'S timing! NOT
OURS!
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